Re: Upgrade report from "bo" to "hamm" :-(
Dan Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 08:09:51PM +0200, Paul Seelig wrote:
> > Actually the true killer was the upgrade of the teTeX packages. It is
> > pretty hard to stand seeing three time in a row "Running initex [...]
> > This will take some time" on a 486DX-2/66 at the configuration stage.
> > This alone consumed almost half an hour IIRC.
> >
> > Would "apt" have made a difference with this? Like installing and
> > configuring all teTeX packages in a row and running "initex"
> > afterwards just once? Or is this simply impossible?
>
> Which reminds me - the same method that we come up with to fix this, if
> it can be fixed, might be usable for iamerican/ibritish. What we need
> is something along the line of what update-menus does but interactive.
> Perhaps DPKG:TNG wil include some way of registering a script to run at
> the end of the configuration? Any interactive but non-vital
> configurations could then happen at the very end, easing one point. It
> would probably allow one running of inittex and one selection of ispell
> dictionaries.
I've considered this quite a bit. It would be nice to have a set of
well-known, lengthy, oft-repeated installation step (inittex,
update-menus, and I guess the dictionary stuff comes to mind).
Package maintainer scripts could indicate they want these processes
run.
This would be a welcome addition to the system. We'd just need to
find a way to have dpkg trip off these scripts at the end of a run.
We can't rely on apt to do this, since people will still be using
dpkg, dftp, or dselect for a long time now.
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